KANNUR: A shocking Trend of abandoning aged parents is on a rise in Kerala. In a span of just three months, a total of 300 complaints reached the women’s commission office. As per records, the last six months alone have shown a rapid rise in complaints that sees the deserting of aged parents.

In Malappuram, an 82-year-old mother with seven children was abandoned by her family. Not everyone in the family was ready to pay a fixed amount to help their mother see some days of solace. Even an RDO court instructed the family of seven children to pay for their mother, but it reached nowhere. Appointing a home nurse was affordable in its own way, so the seven children came on a pact to shift the fated mother to an old age home. The women's commission explains that the mother was shifted only after the children made sure that the family inheritance got distributed equally.

Another case of ache is taking away aged parents offshore just to fill the portfolio of a caretaker to toddlers. To curb such happenings and to take punitive actions, the women's commission is readying moves to create a Jagratha committee in every district.